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Rule Referee
Instant board game rules — no more mid-game arguments
Rule Referee started at a family game night where we spent more time arguing about Mexican Train rules than actually playing. I built a search engine that pulls answers directly from real rulebooks, not AI-generated guesses. It's deterministic, not generative. It's designed to say it doesn't know rather than make something up. Currently 15 games including Catan, Exploding Kittens, Chess, Mexican Train, and more. Chess and 3 games of your choice or $2.99/month for all access. iOS only for now.
Hi Product Hunt! I'm Autumn: solo indie developer and author based in Mexico.
Rule Referee started at a family game night. We kept pulling out the Mexican Train rulebook every time someone new joined, just to check how many dominoes to start with. I threw the rulebook into a custom GPT to get through the trip then spent the next several months building something better.
The core philosophy: I'd rather build a system that pauses than one that pretends. Every answer comes from a reviewed rulebook, not a language model guessing. 15 games currently, more coming.
Happy to answer any questions about the build, the architecture, or what games you'd want to see added!
About Rule Referee on Product Hunt
“Instant board game rules — no more mid-game arguments”
Rule Referee was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 4 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #121 on the daily leaderboard. Rule Referee started at a family game night where we spent more time arguing about Mexican Train rules than actually playing. I built a search engine that pulls answers directly from real rulebooks, not AI-generated guesses. It's deterministic, not generative. It's designed to say it doesn't know rather than make something up. Currently 15 games including Catan, Exploding Kittens, Chess, Mexican Train, and more. Chess and 3 games of your choice or $2.99/month for all access. iOS only for now.
On the analytics side, Rule Referee competes within iOS, Productivity and Games — topics that collectively have 861.2k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Rule Referee performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Rule Referee?
Rule Referee was hunted by Autumn Wohlwend. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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